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On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting.
He represented Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the House investigation of Jan. 6. Paoletta served as chief counsel for the Energy and Commerce subcommittee ...
The case was appealed to the Supreme Court at the end of 2020, but with Trump leaving office in January 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that the case was rendered moot. [4] O'Connor-Ratcliff and Zane petitioned the Supreme Court to hear their case on October 4, 2022. On April 24, 2023, the Court granted certiorari.
The 51-49 vote to end debate on Hegseth’s nomination sets the stage for a final confirmation vote today, when he is expected to secure the majority support he needs to join Trump’s Cabinet.
The nomination originally stood at a 40–40 deadlock, but Vice President Charles G. Dawes did not arrive in the Senate chamber in time to use his tie-breaking vote before Senator Lee S. Overman of North Carolina switched his vote. [7] Coolidge resubmitted the nomination to the Senate, but Warren was again rejected on March 16, by a vote of 39 ...
The Senate voted to confirm Ratcliffe by 74-25, as 20 Democrats and one independent joined Republicans in backing the nomination. ... and the Senate is due to vote on Friday on Trump's nomination ...
Ratcliffe and Duffy, both Republican former House members, generated little fanfare in their public hearings before the Intelligence and Commerce, Science and Transportation committees.
Historically, a three-fifths majority (60%) had to vote in favor of cloture in order to move to a final vote on a Supreme Court nominee. [55] In 1968, there was a bi-partisan effort to filibuster the nomination of incumbent associate justice Abe Fortas as chief justice. After four days of debate, a cloture motion fell short of the necessary two ...